Las Vegas Teachers’ Union May Force 1,000 Layoffs to Preserve Its Profitable Insurance Company
by Education Action GroupLAS VEGAS – While the Great Recession has affected almost all Americans, Nevadans may be the hardest hit. The state leads the nation in unemployment (13 percent) and home foreclosures (three times the national average).
Because of the faltering economy and slowed tax revenue, the Clark County School District needs to cut $78 million from its budget over the next two years. The district must do this either by freezing teacher pay and finding a more affordable employee health insurance carrier, or by laying off 1,000 educators as early as next month.
The first alternative is obviously preferable, because students would be adversely affected by larger class sizes and the loss of many enthusiastic young teachers. Unfortunately, the second option may be unavoidable, because the district has been unable to negotiate a new contract with its teachers union, the Clark County Education Association (CCEA).
CCSD is the fifth largest school district in the nation, serving around 310,000 students in 340 schools in and around Las Vegas. The district is also the largest employer in Nevada with some 33,000 employees, 18,000 of which are teachers.
The main sticking point seems to be the district’s desire to find a less expensive health insurance provider. CCEA members currently receive health insurance from the Teachers Health Trust, a company actually owned and operated by their union.
Most people would describe the union’s insistence on selling its own company’s expensive insurance product to the school district as a conflict of interest, but union officials either don’t agree or don’t care.
The teachers union declared a bargaining impasse last summer. While the two sides could conceivably still reach a deal, it seems most likely that an arbitrator will make the final decision about wage freezes and the fate of the union-owned insurance company. The arbiter is legally bound to choose one side over the other.
“There’s no middle ground,” said district spokeswoman Amanda Fulkerson. “If the district wins, no layoffs and a pay freeze. If the union wins, some get raises, and others get laid off.”
Is the union protecting Health Trust?
The question must be asked: Why is the teachers union jeopardizing the careers and financial futures of 1,000 of its members?
CCEA President Ruben Murillo, Jr. has made it clear the union does not want to accept a pay freeze and has charged school officials as being “disingenuous to the public regarding [the district’s] financial situation.”
“Listen, teachers don’t go into teaching to get rich, but they certainly don’t go into the profession to live in the poorhouse,” Murillo recently wrote in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A pay freeze would be a hardship for teachers, but it would be nothing more than many other employees in the public and private sectors have accepted in recent years. CCSD’s administrators, support staff and police have all agreed to a pay freeze, “leaving the teachers standing alone,” writes the Review-Journal.
Apparently union leaders and veteran teachers, who are in little jeopardy of layoff, are more interested in a raise than allowing their younger peers to remain on the job and provide smaller class sizes for students. Sadly, that attitude is fairly common among teachers’ unions around the nation. School administrators describe it as union members “eating their young.”
Many observers believe CCEA officials are also determined to preserve the monopoly the union-owned Teachers Health Trust has on the school’s health insurance business.
The Teachers Health Trust was established in 1983, after the Clark County district got fed up with regular rate increases from another carrier.
It was written into the district’s collective bargaining contract with the CCEA that the district would pay a monthly per-employee fee to the union-owned Teachers Health Trust. In return, the union would be solely responsible for managing the insurance fund for members. The CCEA president even selects the individuals who serve on THT’s Board of Trustees.
The deal written into the collective bargaining agreement gives Teachers Health Trust a monopoly on the school’s health insurance business. If other insurance companies were allowed to bid for the district’s business, it would almost certainly drive prices down.
In some states, union-affiliated insurance companies openly share their profits with the union. While we have no evidence that this occurs in Clark County, we have to wonder if the union would stand to lose a lot of kickback money if Teachers Health Trust lost the school district’s $10 million-a-month business.
What we know for sure is that the inability to seek competitive insurance bids has cost the school district a bundle.
The district believes it can significantly trim those costs by switching to a private health insurance provider, although the amount of the savings has not been announced.
“Savings to the taxpayers will be in the millions of dollars, monies which will be used to offset lost positions and potential salary cuts and to fund district programs and operations that enhance student achievement,” reads a district fact sheet.
Union insurance scams in other states
The CCEA is not the first teachers union to form its own insurance company and pressure local school boards into purchasing that company’s overpriced coverage.
The Maine Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, established its own insurance entity, the Maine Education Association Benefits Trust, in 1993.
The Benefits Trust “ facilitates” the purchase of employee health insurance for Maine’s public schools, essentially selling them coverage provided by the state’s largest carrier, Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Nearly every school district in the state has been lulled into joining this system over the years, according to officials in several Maine school districts. The Benefits Trust/Anthem scam, which discourages outside competition, has driven insurance prices through the roof for Maine schools.
The Michigan Education Association owns its own insurance company, called the Michigan Education Special Services Association (MESSA). For years local union negotiators have pressed school boards to purchase MESSA employee health insurance, despite its high cost.
As a result, roughly half of the districts in the state carry some form of MESSA insurance, and many are struggling with the continually rising cost of premiums. As in Maine, many Michigan school officials have accused MESSA of refusing to provide insurance claim records that are necessary to attract bids from competitors.
The Michigan Education Association also receives annual kickbacks from MESSA, in exchange for effective representation at the school board bargaining table. In 2009, MESSA reported net assets of $259 million. In 2010, MESSA shared $5 million with the MEA.
The Wisconsin Education Association Council also created an insurance entity, called WEA Trust, several decades ago. For years local union negotiators pressed school boards to purchase employee health insurance from WEA Trust, often at a very high price.
At one point, about three-quarters of the state’s school districts purchased insurance from WEA Trust, helping the union-affiliated insurance company build assets worth $674 million in 2008, according to government records.
EAG published a 2010 analysis of WEA Trust, which revealed that most of the school districts in the state with the highest insurance costs are clients of WEA Trust. Many school administrators said it was very difficult to convince their local unions to allow them to seek bids for less expensive health coverage.
All three of those union-affiliated insurance companies have attracted close scrutiny since a wave of reform-minded lawmakers were elected in November 2010.
Lawmakers in Maine, Wisconsin and Michigan have recently taken steps to give school districts more freedom to accept competitive bids for employee health insurance, thereby ending or at least eroding the expensive monopoly held by union-affiliated insurance companies.
In Clark County, that job is being left to an arbitrator. All the students and taxpayers can do is hope the arbitrator does the right thing for the school district and community, even if that angers the self-serving union.
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Sorry you Union members….but…. Bwahahahahhahahahahahhahaaa!!!
We actually LOVE to tell you WE told you so!
Isn't it interesting….
….unions seem to be VERY pro corporate profits when the profits are THEIRS!
Just more proof that Progressives stand for NOTHING.
Going after School Teachers! A snap shot of the present republican party!
Right now the trolls are looking at your post and thinking…
"That's so stupid. It's a non-profit company. There can't be any profits."
Which is exactly why the average low level drug dealer has a much better understanding of economics than the average union member.
Get a clue pal…you lower the IQ of every group you join.
Troll Alert!! need a fly swatter!!
When are we going to see a city, town, county announce they are leasing the school buildings and contract out education. It's called check and mate. Pound sand unions!
The conflict of interest between the insurance company and the union is disgraceful. The fact that 45% of the employees of the school district are NOT teachers is shameful.
I guess the union is going to be down 1000 members. The union just negotiated their members out of a job. BTW the Teachers Health Trust sounds a lot like money laundering some other organizations use.
This is how the Marxists are thinking:
There is no choice. The cronies must be protected at all costs. Who cares about Children?
The arbitrator will be a union hack and will give the win to the unions. This will result in devastation to the newer teachers and the taxpayers in an already struggling economy. Dumb.
12 craps! Children lose again!
What a scam! So this is how it works:
Teachers unions spend millions in dues to support Democrats -> Democrats tax the hell out of everybody to pay the teacher's exorbitant benefits -> Teacher's union makes more millions making taxpayers pay for their high priced union owned insurance program -> then they use these millions to elect more Democrats to gouge the taxpayer -> rinse and repeat over, and over, and over….
This is nothing but racketeering that deserves a RICO investigation but nothing will ever happen because the mass media will never report the real depth of the scam. I'll never vote for another school tax millage.
Yeah there seems to be a large admin and maintenance staff, probably union mandated.
Are you a teacher?
I don' "go after" teachers, I go after teachers' unions. I don't "go after" police, I go after police unions. And, I don't "go after" fire fighters, I go after their unions. And I do this because when they line up across the table to negotiate, they are negotiating with someone who has no profit interest, cannot go "out of business," and is negotiating with someone else's money, namely the taxpayer's. The entire dynamic is flawed and the unions are taking advantage of it. That is why Ohio and Kasich tried to balance the playing field and the unions, et al. had to spend $42 million to defeat it. Ah well, at least that's $42 million that won't be going into Obama's coffers. If there was legitimate, balanced negotiations between those unions and the government hacks on the other side, then I would support whatever the teachers, police and fire fighters receive–but that isn't the case. Oh, and btw . . . this is coming from a third generation of cops in the family, with the first straight off the boat from Ireland.
I realize that the Mormons moved in on Howard Hughes. In my mind, there is some question as to whether he had become a stone junkie because of having broken his back in an experimental plan crash or the Mormon handlers, while he was vulnerable, kept him on the needle.
Either way, together Hughes and the Mormons were huge players in shoving the mob out of Sin City.
The question become one whether or not the mindset in a City that makes its living on gambling and sex slaves can actually straighten its corrupt head out enough to live within a typical American structure?
This would necessarily involve cleaning up the current union structures whose roots go back to the early gangsters who consistently siphoned from them every day.
Anybody interested in this subject might check out Vegas Rag Doll by Joel Schoenmann and Wendy Mazaros. She was a Las Vegas beauty who grew up there and at 16 became involved with Benny Binion and later spent 10 years as the wife of Tom Hanley, one of the most mob's most prominent hit men.
This book is mostly her story, but it often touches on the relationship between unions and gangsters. On a couple occasions her husband snuffed high union officials that Chicago wanted out of the way.
Hey Dopey I'm no republican and I object to teachers unions and their tactics. So you see it isn't just Republicans.
It's good to see these goons having to suffer the consequences of their own stupidity and greed. Left to their own devices the left has no option but to implode on itself but the sad part is they use our resources to continue towards their demise, only at a slower pace. It's a system that forces us to suffer with them as we have seen but the good, but sad news is that the resources are running very short for all and it's becoming very apparant that they are bankrupt on ideas and funds.Great days are ahead if we get through this liberal self destruction.
Meanwhile, the students are never assured of getting the best teachers (can't fire bad ones) and magnet schools are never allowed. The teacher sucmbags and their union pushers do not allow competition, and they are the ones who teach the kids about how America really works.
Mark it down . . . public unions are on the endangered species list. By its very nature, when two workers, one public and one private both do the same job, those who receive the public salaries cannot earn more than those who pay the salaries in taxes. It's coming home to roost. It has survived this long because we have seen economic cycles and during "good times" no one bothers to worry about it. In a perpetual recession, brought about by, for example, doubling the debt to $15 trillion, people begin to sit up and take notice. When interest rates rise and servicing that debt eats enormous chunks out of the GDP, stagnating public sector salaries and keeping unemployment high, people will revolt.
nah, just decipher the name, I know porter is a carrier…
"The state leads the nation in unemployment (13 percent) and home foreclosures (three times the national average)."
Does reelecting a moron to the US senate like "Searchlight Dingy Harry" ring a bell???
Look at the results, the higher the wages and benefits go for the teachers the lower the test scores for little johnny go, why is that?
Yeah, Clancy would like us to believe that he is lowering the boom. In fact, in many big cities, he brought his his hatred of the Brits (doesn't realize that we had to kill the Brits twice) and still often does not believe in basic American freedoms – often total leaches making the rest of us carry and pay for a corrupt boom.
Here's an idea lets have a master teacher and have the smartest kid teach the others after doing away with the child labor laws and then the kids can have more money for there collage education.
No one is going after the teacher, just to those that are ignorant. If the shoe fits, so be it!
I think what we have here is called chickens coming home to roost. When you elect and continue to re-elect a complete partisan-hack with advanced dementia like Reid, what exactly were you expecting?
I think this is the last stand Obumble must be defeated or Unions in our country will be our downfall. We can't continue to play the wages and benefits they are demanding.
Wow that's a stupid comment and highly inaccurate, I don't why Teachers need to have unions. If you're a good teacher you don't need union protections.
Unions are the gift that keeps giving all year long. Now they are going to cause people to lose their jobs. Wow, sounds like more Obumblenomics the White House is full of Bumbling Buffoons.
Well duh! What do you expect, them to get a real job? We all must remember, this is for the children.
Come on Dick, it’s a little late in the year to be so boring.
Support the Mafia. You can call it a "union" but guidos like Murillo Junior are only fooling DNC trolls. Whatever the mental disease is called Junior & The Union Mobsters do greatly appreciate you.
I wish you were right. The USA has plenty of room below to continue our descent.
Afraid we will hit the point of no return before the rest of America wakes up.
Question:
How much would be expense be if all the donations to the Democrat party were removed by all the players in this wicked cycle?
And greed is so great that they are willing to remove their own to keep it going.
Taxpayer are last in the chain – lets change that now
You will find the same over-large administrative staff in all school systems and all govt bureaucratic organizations. They are all MONOPOLIES. There is no competition to force cost savings and effeciencies. If the teachers had any sense they would protest the huge administrative overhead. Reducing those costs would allow more teachers to be kept on the job – doing what a public school should be doing – teaching.
Message to Rep. John Boehner's father:
I will never forgive you for not being able,…….
to raise your son to be a man.
I don't really believe Harry Reid was reelected, as much as the unions there stole the election. The Nevada polls were tightly run. Just days before the election, Angle had a five point lead, Harry won by five points. That's a ten point swing. That's the nature of the beast in a corrupt state.
The statist public union thugs have been growing and consolidating their power (and fat paychecks) for years. They will not give up anything easily. They like things the way they are, but change will come. They have abused the taxpayers too much for too long.
Message to Boehner … You better hope your cowardice has not cost your relatives their businesses because you're going to need a job after the next election!
Oh how sweet that would be.
Ol' Dick is one of the bigger goofballs that appear here.
Shooting him down is just no fun any more. Kinda like a mercy killing.
Dick, Dick, Dick,……..
…..when are you actually going to read something before coloring outside the lines?
C'mon…..try hard. Concentrate.
And teachers' unions go after taxpayers.
Viscious cycle, eh, dimbulb?
I think someone stole his walker.
yea, and the average low level drug dealer has a better work ethic, too!
Dick's the crazy uncle who snores through dinner and then wakes up and blabs something about "back when I was a kid……"
Just gotta make sure his pampers are dry.
Test scores will go up as soon as students start paying dues.
Just watch……..
It would be even "sweeter" if the SOB would lose his pension and "special" benefits too!
Those that can, do.
Those that can't, join Teacher's Unions.
Completely off topic, but your Doc Obama avatar really creeps me out. Not as much as the real one, but a lot.
Those who can't teach become administrators. And, after seeing some of the so-called teachers during the Wisconsin debacle, I'm beginning to believe the old adage that those who can't do things become teachers! Sad to say…
Unions=no compromise on benefits…but at what cost to individuals?
Since when were Marxists family family in the first place?
School teachers? No, we're going after the corrupt union bosses and their ripoff insurance racket. Get a clue.
Uh…not always. The way systems are rigged, the ONLY way to "reward" excellent teachers…that is, raise their pay…is to "promote" them OUT of the classroom and into an "administrative" job–which they may or may not be any good at. We need to be able to reward excellent teachers and KEEP them in the classroom where they're most effective. The unions oppose this idea because they are communists who think every teacher with x number of years and y education should be paid the same salary…whether they're any good or not.
Then why do they support the Unions? If they are "good" teachers you would think they could see what we see!
An indication of how many teachers may deserve the label "good" exists in Wisconsin, where thanks to a good governor, teachers now may choose NOT to belong to the union. In a given county, the teachers in only 2 of 11 districts chose to disband their association with the union. I wonder if nationally the percentage of teachers willing to do without union support would be anywhere near that high? Face it, at least 3 out of 4 teachers care more about their union benefits than providing excellent instruction!
Actually, in the two most populous counties–where Reno and Las Vegas are located–guess who "maintains" the voting machines. That's right, SEIU. In the 2010 election, Reid "won" by 5 percentage points after trailing by 5 in every poll the day before the election. Guess what? A check after the election showed that Reid's MARGIN OF VICTORY in several precincts was larger than the total number of registered voters IN those same precincts!!! Note that it was the MARGIN of victory–not the total number of votes both candidates got–that was larger than all the registered voters in those precincts. The House SHOULD have impeached him, the Senate decertified the election and new elections held with a disinterested party in charge of the voting machines, both before AND after the new elections. Senate Republicans??? Not a pair among the lot of 'em.
Don't get creeped out. It's a message. I changed avatars about two times per week.
In most cases, union members have no choice but to belong…it's a condition of employment. Besides, the unions provide (often "free") malpractice, insurance–though I've not seen any teachers sued for "malpractice" even though some SHOULD be. And, they offer "benefits" that are extremely low cost–to the teachers themselves…benefits that they may not be able to even find, let alone afford outside of the unions. Wait a year and see what happens in Wisconsin. When teachers see exactly how much it's costing them every month out of their paychecks–remember they just started having to pay their dues themselves–I suspect that a LOT of them will be changing their minds.
Destroying the minds of our children! A snap shot of teacher's unions!
That WEA Trust teachers union health care entity kept prices high during bargaining, and of course the cronies voted for it. Then after Gov. Walker and Republicans passed their new bargaining laws and school districts were free to make better bargains with other health care entities, suddenly the WEA Trust's prices came way down. Shocking, I know.
They are their unions Clancy. Third generation? Then you already know that …..Your uncle Patrick was probably a steward. And now, your cousin Fitz is one. Right? Hey pal……You make no sense at all… other than to expose yourself…..
Look it….If enough cops (They're supposed to have stones.) and firefighters (They're supposed to have stones, too.) and teachers (They're supposed to have brains.) all got off of their paddy @$$es and made a stand…. the unions would be bust and sanity would prevail. Right? Because they have brains and stones, right? Ask any of them… they'll tell you, "Look at us! We've got brains and stones!"
But… they don't want that to happen now… do they? And it's not happening anytime soon, now….is it? Why? "Cuz it will f*&k up the gravy train for everyone. You know it. I know it. And worse…. the cop, the fire fighter and the teacher know it. And they all hide behind the big, bad union. And then some mutt like you writes a post defending them.
They are their unions. Either that or…. they are very stupid and don't have any stones.
You can't have it any other way.
And spare us the third generation off of the boat BS….. Just about all of us got off of a boat from somewhere.
But……. it wasn't yesterday, and…………We all know how this works.
We grew up with it the same way you did……
One quick note – studies are not conclusive that smaller class sizes are better for students. The problem will be that the 1,000 teacher that are let go will be the most recent hire vs. the crappiest.
They just busted a kindergarden teacher down here in my area for the 2nd time for possession of meth in the classroom.WTF is up with this shyte?Why was she not fired after the first time?Answer-UNION!!
Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest? We've got ONE interest, and we serve it very well, thank you very much. We're lookin' out for ol' number one. No conflict at all!
What's the difference? Don't teachers vote for the corrupt union bosses?
America…Las Vegas is the cesspool of Union 'goons'! With all those restaurants and casinos and service industry…I bet the biggest congregation of 'goons' is in Las Vegas.
So are we not surprised that they are protecting what they think is theirs…by getting rid of some of theirs?
Wake up…Nevada…you did a bad, bad thing by letting cockroach Harry Reid back in the house to do more damage…and this is payback time!
GET YOUR UNION DUES REFUNDED IF THEY ARE NOT USING THEM PROPERLY…Republican Saul Anuzis (a former member of the Teamsters) announced the launch of a new website specifically designed to give union members assistance in getting refunds for the portion of their dues used on politics. It is not “anti-union,” it is a site with one purpose—to help union members who do NOT want their dues money used on politics, regardless of party.
http://www.unionrefund.org/
BANISH THE UNION ‘GOONS’ – BOTH PUBLIC & PRIVATE
IS YOUR STATE “RIGHT TO WORK”? – http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm
Perhaps I misunderstand you. You witnessed the behavior of Wisconsin teachers when they joined with the goons bussed in from out of state and the Democrat legislators to riot in an attempt to defeat Walker. You're aware that the same approach is being taken to recall him. How can you be hopeful that they will, in any significant number, come to " see the error of their ways"? They aren't going to be pursuaded to put anything ahead of their personal greed. They know that the rip-off they've enjoyed is unsustainable; they just don't care. They want to ride it to the end.
You nailed it.
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it's for the children!
Huh?
If only. It's about damn time these state-sponsored brain rapists were knocked off their pedestal.
Well, he certainly seems dumb enough to be a
teachersocialist indoctrinator.Teachers are the only profession I know that wants to be paid just on the fact they went to college! If one graduates with a chemical engineering degree, he is hired by a company because of his degree, after that his wages depends on his skills and performance as a chemical engineer. If he is lousy,he is on the street! Teachers don't want to be reviewed on their performance! Because they sat in class for 4 or 6 years , does not guarantee that they are good teachers or able to teach at all!
Does the union loses 1000 dues payers? If so, I'm surprised they let this happen.
Is it possible that the laid-off teachers are required to continue membership in the union, continue paying dues, if they ever want to work again? Or, do they have to pay back dues if they later get a job and want to come back to the union? Is the school district bound by the union contract to continue offering health insurance to the laid-off workers, thereby guaranteeing the union's health plan doesn't lose money on premiums for 1000 people?
I would like to see further investigation on this. What does the union lose in the agreement? Anything? Nothing?
As always, the union puts its own well being over the well being of its members.
The union controls the teachers, the union controls the health insurance. The city must provide teachers and the teachers must have insurance. The teachers must be from the union, the insurance must be from the union controlled insurance company. How is this not an illegal monopoly?
You don't reply to posts any more porter? If you're sick of the conversation, why post here at all? You just like posting absurd, untrue things and fading off into the sunset? What a weak approach. If you're posting it to try and convince someone of your position, then you've failed. If you're posting it to simply get a rise out of the locals, then you've succeeded, but confirmed yourself as a troll by definition. Stick around next time and make a go of it. Unless you're chicken?
The year was 1913; we got Woodrow Wilson, the Sixteenth Amendment AND the Federal Reserve Bank. Hmm, if I were a betting man I'd say that a game was afoot.
Look in any County Board of Education building- what do you see? Countless employees who have almost nothing to do- my college girlfriend got a job in the Montgomery County, MD Board of Education and it was just a holding pen of non-functioning sons and (mostly) daughters of connected Liberals. My girlfriend's primary duties consisted of about one half hour of filing and seven hours of reading the trash novels she enjoyed. So many people doing nothing. When a letter came in to the office, she was told they had six weeks(!) to answer. So if cuts to teachers need to be made, maybe they need to weed out the biggest Liberal jobs program of all- the "support" staff.
Point taken. I'll try to do better in the future at responding to comments.
We had this same situation in WI. This has been stopped!
The State Employees and the teachers Union union W.E.A. owned tyhe Health Insurance Comapny, W.E.A. Trust.
There was no shopping around for other insurance plans according to the contrzacts.
As a result, the Union over-charged for the insurance plan, by about $500 Per Month, Per Employee….Nice golden egg, hey?
Our new Governor Walker stopped the practise, and we no longer have a State Deficit of $3.5 Billion U.S.D.
When the unions lost in Wisconsin all the doom and gloom the unions predicted did not materialise. Not one school or public employee lost their job. Now look at the situation in Ohio where the union prevailed in the lie campaign, budget short falls have resulted in layoffs across the union spectrum, add Nevada and its mess to the union process and it is obvious union leaders lie.
I agree 100%. It's time to shine a light on these rats and watch them scurry. The graft and corruption in public unions is incredible. These parasites need to be pried off the body politic.
The very idea that public employees should be allowed to organize against the citizens is ridiculous. Even FDR recognized that such a system would work against the public good.
Thanks to teacher unions we have rubber rooms where school districts "warehouse" teachers they cannot fire, but cannot be trusted in a classroom.
This is a monopoly….there is no competition factor.
Saw the First Hag on a mag cover at the grocery checkout. Her caption: "Everything we do must be for our children"! I thought I was beyond shock at the blatant lies, guess not.
Keep in mind that between 1960 and 2010, the democrats controlled the House for 41 years and the Senate for 36 years. But it's the GOP that's caused all the problems? HA!
Not only that, but, once hired, they continue to go to school courtesy of the taxpayers. So of course they get more money for an advanced degree. I know a kindergarten teacher who got her masters degree, got a big raise but is teaching the same stuff to the same age group, no extra effort required of her.
Liberals believe that if they had not re-elected Sen. Reid Nevada's unemployment rate would be 25%.
Yes I know a teacher that teaches special Ed fifth grade! She routinely takes night courses like photography so her pension and wages get increased! She will be never teaching to her students, so the kids get nothing from this!
Welcome to Wisconsin!
This is not a republican effort but the works of the teachers union you imbecile.
There is no study that is reputable that shows larger classes are detrimental to the child's learning capacity. Large classes are a problem if there are students who have learning difficulties mixed with those who are average or above average intelligence.
I made a flippant comment which I now regret. Sorry.
I take my comment back. Thanks for your honesty.
"Everything we do must be for killing our children" should read the caption for the pro-abortion First Hag.
This is proof that unions exist for the benefit of union bosses and not for union workers.
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